The temperature on October 18, 1942 was between 9.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 20 » Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
March 12 » The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
June 22 » World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
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